Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Waste-to-energy as a placebo In her petition to the Supreme Court, Patel demanded a stay on the subsidy to wte plants and an independent review of such plants based on the experience in the Lucknow and Hyderabad plants. In 2005, the Supreme Court ordered the creation of a committee to …
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has said that the state government was developing the third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad over an area of 120 hectares. A biotech incubation centre would be set up and be supported with technical inputs from the Indian Institute of Chemical …
scientists at the Directorate of Oilseed Research (dor), Hyderabad, have developed the world's first microbial insecticide in solid form. According to D M Hegde, project director, dor, "The product is made from Bacillus thuringiensis (bt) bacteria of the kurstaki strain isolated from Mahboobnagar and Nalgonda districts in Andhra Pradesh.' Knock …
The Asian Development Bank (adb) held its 39th annual meeting in Hyderabad on May 3-6, 2006. Scorching temperatures did not prevent a lively network of 100 Indian and international groups, organised as the People's Forum Against the adb (pfaad), from greeting adb with demonstrations, corner meetings, panel discussions, cultural programmes …
when us president George Bush visited Hyderabad in March as part of the Indo- us Agriculture Knowledge Initiative, the Andhra Pradesh state agriculture university put up an exhibition. There, one stall was to exhibit how Punukula village cut its cultivation costs dramatically by adopting non-pesticidal management (npm) of crops. The …
in perhaps the most significant contribution to the world of science from India in recent years, a team of researchers from Hyderabad has helped resolve the mystery of how animals grow from a fertilised egg. It is well known that cells differentiate and proliferate to form various organs that a …
continuous submerged paddy cultivation doesn't harm soil as believed. Rather, it improves fertility as compared to other agricultural systems, claims a study by researchers from Hyderabad-based International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (icrisat) and the National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Pattern, Nagpur. The study found …
andhra Pradesh (ap) is witnessing a bitter struggle over the formation of Greater Hyderabad. On August 22, 2005, a division bench of ap High Court (hc) granted a stay on the process but the government is trying to get the stay vacated at the next hearing on September 6, 2005. …
Toxic scare: Residents of Hyderabad city in Pakistan's Sindh province might soon be exposed to several water-borne diseases. The city's irrigation authorities recently declared that toxic water from a local lake will be released into the Indus river, which supplies water to the city. The controversy is not new to …
A researcher from Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has identified the virus that causes the sterility mosaic disease in pigeonpea (commonly known as tur dal). The finding is significant, as the disease leads to an annual loss of US $300 million in India and Nepal, which account …
Interview with Sriramamurthy Suri, founder and director National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR), Hyderabad About NIAR Our institute was established in 1983 to create awareness and conduct training activities on amateur radio (commonly known as ham radio). Communication is vital during a disaster. With early warning, a number of lives …
Untrammeled urbanisation has put paid to many water bodies in Hyderabad. The latest victims are the Osmansagar and Himayatsagar reservoirs. These human-made lakes have supplied the bulk of the city's water needs for nearly eight decades. In 2002, Hyderabad received about 45 million gallons of water each day from Himayatsagar …
at long last a positive note has been struck to end the Union government's ambiguity towards non-governmental organisations (ngos). The Planning Commission has circulated a draft of a clear-cut policy on the voluntary sector, the lack of which has irked the latter a great deal. ngo representatives involved in the …
a research by Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (nin) could alleviate the suffering of about 62 million Indians, who are consuming unhealthy quantities of fluoride. According to a study, Effect of tamarind ingestion on fluoride excretion in humans, intake of tamarind via food delays the progression of fluorosis by enhancing …
On January 5, 2003 hundreds of rickshaw pullers in Hyderabad got together to declare: "Protect our right on roads.' The city was hosting the Asian Social Forum and some 500-rickshaw pullers from different cities and towns had decided to use the occasion to organise in an informal but cohesive way …
optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum (asf) meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while proclaiming grandly: "Another world is possible". Another world is definitely possible. In fact it exists. The numerous communities that gathered there, with their own stories of survival …
to check increasing pollution levels in the state, the Andhra Pradesh (ap) government is considering a proposal to tax polluting vehicles. The proposal targets all vehicles, including private cars and two-wheelers, in the twin cities of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and other areas with high vehicle density such as Nizamabad and Vishakhapatnam. …
